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category: "Nuclear Scientists & Programs"
tags:
  - Person
  - Nuclear
  - Physicist
  - Israel
summary: "Raymond Fox was an American nuclear physicist who emigrated to Israel in 1957 from California, where he had access to weapons design information at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory."
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Raymond Fox was an American nuclear physicist who emigrated to [[Israel]] in 1957 from [[California]], where he had access to weapons design information at the [[Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory]]. His secrets were considered potentially invaluable to the Israelis at [[Dimona]].[^1]

### Footnotes

[^1]: Hersh, Seymour M. *The Samson Option: Israel's Nuclear Arsenal and American Foreign Policy*. Random House, 1991. Chapter 7.